Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Chapter One A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories.
Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.
Wintriness responded to wintriness. "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room. " Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. Meanwhile, it was a privilege. Responds by budding. Mr. The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time.
Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference. I've also included selected quotes from the comments, as well as my own notes on the books I've already read. PS: All book images in this post are copyright Amazon, and were retrieved using my Big Book Search Engine. So, without further ado, here are the Greatest Sci-Fi Books of All Time, ordered by upvote count: Dune Frank Herbert - 1965 "There's a reason it's the global top selling science fiction book of all time.
" - NibblyPig. 100 Best Novels « Modern Library. ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses follows its hero, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of Dublin.
Overflowing with puns, references to classical literature, and stream-of-consciousness writing, this is a complex, multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man. Initially banned in the United States but overturned by a legal challenge by Random House’s Bennett Cerf, Ulysses was called “a memorable catastrophe” (Virginia Woolf), “a book to which we are all indebted” (T. S. Eliot), and “the most faithful X-ray ever taken of the ordinary human consciousness” (Edmund Wilson). Click here to read more about ULYSSES THE GREAT GATSBY by F.
Set in the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby tells the story of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, his decadent parties, and his love for the alluring Daisy Buchanan. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce Click here to read more about A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN U.S.A. Les 100 livres qu'il faut avoir lu... Bon, je reprends le principe de Pando (parce que c'est plus drôle!).
Je note que vu qu'il s'agit d'un classement BBC, on note une sureprésentation des auteurs anglophones. Ce serait sympa d'y rajoputer un peu plus du monde entier, en particulier francophone...Et je vois pas pourquoi les 4 premiers HP et pas les 12 premiers Disque-monde, dans ce cas... - en rose ceux que j'ai lu (24)- en bleu ceux que j'ai déjà prévu de lire (19)- en rouge ceux dont je me dis que bof bof a priori pas envie mais qu'on sait jamais ce que la vie nous réserve ^^ (19)- en vert ceux dont je ne connais pas le sujet exact ou que je ne connais pas du tout (39) - et qui dès que je trouverai le temps de me renseigner deviendront au choix des rouges ou des bleus 1.
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Il nait d'une mère d'origine italienne, Joan Barker, et d'un père d'origine irlandaise, Léonard Barker. C'est en 1966, à l'âge de 14 ans, qu'il écrit sa première nouvelle : The Wood on the Hill. Clive Barker passe ensuite trois années à la Liverpool University où il étudie la littérature anglaise et la philosophie.
Il commence alors à écrire des pièces de théâtre : The History of the Devil, Frankenstein in Love, Subtle Bodies, The Secret Life of the Cartoons et Colossus. C'est en 1973 qu'il quitte Liverpool pour aller s'installer à Londres. En 1985 sort son premier roman Le Jeu de la damnation (The Damnation Game), puis en 1987 Le Royaume des Devins (Weaveworld) continue à asseoir sa notoriété. Entre temps a lieu la série des Candyman, à l'origine adaptée de la nouvelle Lieux Interdits (The Fordidden) des Livres de Sang.